Reminder: Charity Auction Ends Today!
The charity auction on ebay for the Morpeth Lions Club Flood Fund will end today. There’s still time to place your bids! Many thanks to all those who have supported the auction.
21 April, 2009 at 3:43 pm (books, radiant boy, writing) (age of sail, amandine de villeneuve, emma collingwood, ghost stories, radiant boy, royal navy)
And it only took me a year or so to get it done. This is the second book in my series of “Penny Dreadfuls”; format, layout and print will be the same as they were for “Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased)”.
Unlike “Samuel Blackwood”, “The Radiant Boy” has no erotic content. These are simply four old-fashioned ghost stories that could have happened in the Royal Navy of the 18th century. The stories cover four timeless themes of ghostly folk lore: Visitations, Harbingers of Death, Poltergeists and the classic Haunting.
THE RADIANT BOY
Hauntings in the Age of Sail
Georgian Royal Navy Ghost Stories
by Emma Collingwood
Illustrations by Amandine de Villeneuve
Edited by Timothy T. Tarbottom, Esq.
The Visitation:
“The Radiant Boy”
The Harbinger of Death:
“Crawford’s Casket”
The Poltergeist:
“The Last Journey of HMS Dover“
The Haunting:
“Last Service”
I’ll meet up with Mlle Amandine de Villeneuve one of the next weekends to discuss the cover and the illustrations. If everything works out according to our plans, pre-orders will start in May and the book should be out in June. Huzzah and cheers!

The third (and last) book in the “Penny Dreadful” series will be “Jackdaw”.
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6 October, 2008 at 3:06 pm (books, charity, radiant boy, writing) (18th century, art, books, charity, cuthbert collingwood, emma collingwood, hms victory, morpeth, nelson, radiant boy, royal navy, ships, writing)
The charity auction on ebay for the Morpeth Lions Club Flood Fund will end today. There’s still time to place your bids! Many thanks to all those who have supported the auction.
EMMA COLLINGWOOD
Love, Suspense and Sarcasm in the Age of Sail
You can discuss Emma's book at her community on LiveJournal: PSCL
.Georgian naval ghost stories with and without male/male romance.
LIEUTENANT SAMUEL BLACKWOOD (DECEASED)
HMS Privet has the reputation of being a cursed ship: every first lieutenant serving aboard her dies gruesomely. Lieutenant Daniel Leigh is determined to solve the mystery and volunteers for the place himself, putting his life in desperate danger. Little does he suspect that he will fall in love with the captain, John Meadows, and end up fighting not only for his own life but for the soul of his lover, too.
"Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased)" - a Georgian naval ghost story featuring a cursed ship, a vengeful ghost, a haunted captain and a very daring lieutenant.
The book contains four illustrations by the amazing Mlle Amandine de Villeneuve, who is also responsible for the cover art.
Buy the printed 'Penny Dreadful' here
"Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased)" is now also available as an e-book (*.pdf file).
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